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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 14 > Quite a step up from tying knots

Quite a step up from tying knots

The Explorers program, a coed affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and rising border violence.

By Jennifer Steinhauer / The Bulletin
May 14, 2009

IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.

The responding officers — eight teenage....

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